NSCAD Extended Studies
Digital Media
Computer

NEW: Digital Painting
This course will focus on digital painting techniques in Photoshop with a brief introduction to Corel Painter. The class will cover the basics of painting digitally including file setup for scale and resolution, tablet setup, layers and their attributes, working from references, importing and exporting. The students will learn value studies, various methods and approaches, composition, working from a sketch on paper and a digital thumbnail. The majority of each class will be spent working on independent projects from reference photographs. The last session will be for critiques so that all the students may receive feedback on their work. Class limit is 15.

Registration and withdrawal deadline: September 11, 2012

Course Code:
 ESDS 0143 [Register Online]
Instructor: Jon Fox
Site:
 N320c, 1895 Granville Street
Date / Time:
 Sept 19 - Nov 21, Wed, 6:00pm - 8:50pm (10 sessions)
Tuition: $350.00 + HST

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
The creation of digital images for use in digital page layout, interactive media, the web and digital artwork is introduced using Adobe Photoshop CS5 on Macintosh OSX. Demonstrations, exercises, and an independent project will familiarize students with the Adobe Photoshop interface, tools, features and menus. Scanning, imaging manipulation, composition, and the use of painterly and photographic effects, digital colour and printing process will be addressed. Bring a CD-R or USB Flash Drive, notebook and pen to first class. Class limit is 15.

Prerequisite: Must be familiar with Macintosh OSX operating system.

Tuition includes 10 weeks of access outside of class for homework during times scheduled in cooperation with Multimedia staff.

This course qualifies as part of the Certificate in Digital Media or the Certificate in Photography.

Registration and withdrawal deadline: September 11, 2012

Course Code:
 ESDS 0111 [Register Online]
Instructor: Bryony McStay-Fost
Site: N320c, 1895 Granville Street
Date / Time:
 Sept 18 - Nov 20, Tues, 6:00pm - 8:50pm (10 sessions)
Tuition:
 $350.00 + HST

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Explore the potential of the popular graphics editor Adobe Illustrator CS5 on Macintosh OSX. Used by designers and illustrators to create logos, maps, technical drawings, illustrations and charts that require a high degree of precision and scalability; Adobe Illustrator is vector based and therefore curves do not pixelate as they do in other graphics applications.Bring a CD-R or USB Flash Drive, notebook and pen to first class. Prerequisite: Must be familiar with Macintosh OSX operating system. Class limit is 12.

Tuition includes 10 weeks of access outside of class for homework during times scheduled in cooperation with Multimedia staff.

This course qualifies as part of the Certificate in Digital Media.

Registration and withdrawal deadline: September 11, 2012

Course Code:
 ESDS 0115 [Register Online]
Instructor: Bryony McStay-Fost
Site: N320c, 1895 Granville Street
Date / Time:
 Sept 20 - Nov 22, Thurs, 6:00pm - 8:50pm (10 sessions)
Tuition: $350.00 + HST

Webpage Design with WordpressLearn how to design and build full-featured websites by using Wordpress. Wordpress is a free, open-source website publishing platform that is easy to use with great community support. Students will be introduced to major web development languages through customizing the Wordpress core to meet their goals. Languages introduced will include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. For more information on Wordpress, visit http://wordpress.org. Class limit is 15.

Tuition includes 10 weeks of access outside of class for homework during times scheduled in cooperation with Multimedia staff.

This course qualifies as part of the Certificate in Digital Media.

Registration and withdrawal deadline: September 11, 2012

Course Code:
 ESDS 0142 [Register Online]
Instructor: Christel LeBlanc
Site: N320f, 1895 Granville Street
Date / Time:
 Sept 19 - Nov 21, Wed, 6:00pm - 8:50pm (10 sessions)
Tuition:
 $350.00 + HST

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